Fresh and dried dill leaves ( sometimes called " dill weed " to distinguish it from dill seed ) are used as herbs, mainly in Finland, Sweden, the Baltic, in Russia, and in central Asia.

Truso was situated in a central location upon the Eastern European trade routes, which led from Birka in the north to the island of Gotland and to Visby in the Baltic Sea and later included the Hanseatic city of Elbląg.

In 2006 the organization stated that it would cease spending in the Baltic and central European nations by 2010, and funding would be shifted to Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

* The Baltic glaciation in the lowlands of northern and central Europe where there are now numerous lakes of the Pomeranian Lake District, a feature especially common in and around Poznań and Gniezno.

" The vast majority of the salt transported on the road was produced from brine near Lüneburg, a city in the northern central part of the country and then transported to Lübeck, a major seaport on Germany ’ s Baltic coast.

Tyresö Municipality ( Tyresö kommun ) is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden on the coast of the Baltic Sea.

The extensive and modern seaport facilities in Gdynia, the most modern and extensive port facilities in Europe at the time, became Poland's central port on the Baltic Sea.

As Denmark needed a naval base in the central Baltic Sea, a fort was built on Christiansø and Frederiksø in 1684 which served as an outpost for the Danish Navy until 1855.

The berries collected in the wild are a popular fruit in northern, central and eastern Europe, notably in Nordic countries, the Baltic states, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine.

Carbon-14 dating of the remaining central European regions shows that Corded Ware appeared after 2880 BC It spread to the Lüneburger Heide and then further to the North European Plain, Rhineland, Switzerland, Scandinavia, the Baltic region and Russia to Moscow, where the culture met with the pastoralists considered indigenous to the steppes.

Still it is generally held that "… Celtic, Germanic, Baltic and Slavic may possibly be traced back to the Corded Ware horizon of north, central and eastern Europe.

The extensive and modern seaport facilities in Gdynia, the most modern and extensive port facilities in Europe at the time, became Poland's central port on the Baltic Sea.

The nominate subspecies breeds from southern Sweden and Denmark through central and eastern Europe east to western Siberia, and winters mainly in the North and Baltic Seas, with smaller numbers in the Adriatic, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Mediterranean and on inland lakes.

Major declines have also been observed from 1980 onward in Sweden, Finland, northern Russia ( Karelia ), and the Baltic States, and smaller declines in much of the rest of northern and central Europe.

After gaining also the Duchy of Bavaria, Henry's realm covered more than two thirds of Germany from the Alps to the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, making him the mightiest ruler in central Europe.

In addition to Silesia, he received the central Seniorate Province, stretching from Lesser Poland at Kraków to eastern Greater Poland and western Kuyavia, as well as the authority over the Pomerelian lands at Gdańsk on the Baltic Sea.

The Laplandian Granulite Belt is in the central northeast section of the Baltic shield.

On 24 February, with the weather clearing over central Germany, Eighth Air Force sent over 800 bombers, hitting Schweinfurt and attacks on the Baltic coast, with a total of 11 B-17s being lost.

Togo insisted that Akiyama accompany him into battle on his battleship Mikasa as an advisor, and despite his junior rank Akiyama played a central role in planning for the Battle of Port Arthur, Battle of the Yellow Sea, and planning for arrival of the Russian Baltic Fleet and the subsequent Battle of Tsushima.

The base is of tactical importance due to its central location in the Baltic Sea and the fact that it does not ice over in winter.

On the 9th, Erwin had already moved into the Baltic Sea with a minimum central pressure of 960mb.

Property belonging to expelled or murdered Poles and Jews was often given to Volksdeutsche resettled from Baltic States, Eastern Europe and central Germany.

Russia's industrial regions included Moscow, the central regions of European Russia, St. Petersburg, the Baltic cities, Russian Poland, some areas along the lower Don and Dnepr rivers, and the southern Ural Mountains.

The European Hedgehog is endemic to Europe ( including European Russia ), with a global distribution extending from the British Isles and the Iberian peninsula, eastwards through much of western to central Europe ; and from southern Fennoscandia, and the northern Baltic to north-west Russia.

During the same period the Georgian states of Colchis and Tabal arose around the Black Sea and central Anatolia respectively.

It is generally assumed by scholars that the Bastarnae's original home was around the Vistula river ( central Poland ) and that they migrated south-eastwards to the Black Sea region around 200 BC ( as, 400 years later, did the Gothic ethnos ).

Hot, dry desert strip along Red Sea coast ; cooler and wetter in the central highlands ( up to of rainfall annually ); semiarid in western hills and lowlands ; rainfall heaviest during June – September except in coastal desert.

In other historical records, he is said to have originally been King of Koshi, a smaller tribal entity, apparently in northern parts of central Japan, perhaps as far as the coast of Sea of Japan.

The history of the Mediterranean region is the history of the interaction of the cultures and people of the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea — the central superhighway of transport, trade and cultural exchange between diverse peoples — encompassing three continents: Western Asia, North Africa, and Southern Europe.

The salinity is reflected in the large lake in central Iraq, southwest of Baghdad, known as Bahr al Milh ( Sea of Salt ).

The result is a flow of cold air southeastward across Japan that brings freezing temperatures and heavy snowfalls to the central mountain ranges facing the Sea of Japan, but clear skies to areas fronting on the Pacific.

They either flow into isolated bodies of water such as the Caspian Sea or simply disappear into the steppes and deserts of central and southern Kazakhstan.

There are four such longitudinal strips between the Mediterranean Sea and Syria: the coastal strip ( or the maritime plain ), western Lebanon, the central plateau, and eastern Lebanon ( see fig.

When Egyptian rule collapsed after the invasion of the Sea Peoples, the central hill country could no longer sustain a large nomadic population, so they went from nomadism to sedentism.

Areas within the Namib include the Skeleton Coast and the Kaokoveld in the north and the extensive Namib Sand Sea along the central coast.

Occupying a central position on the great highway between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean, thus uniting the East and the West, wealth flowed into it from many sources, so that it became one of the greatest of all the region's ancient cities, and the capital of the Neo Assyrian Empire.

Annual precipitation averages about in central Transylvania, at Iaşi in Moldavia, and only at Constanţa on the Black Sea.

The only permanent river that crosses the ecoregion is the Nile River, which originates in central Africa and empties northwards into the Mediterranean Sea.

Most observers describe Venezuela in terms of four fairly well-defined regions: the Maracaibo lowlands in the northwest, the northern mountains extending in a broad east-west arc from the Colombian border along the Caribbean Sea, the wide Orinoco plains ( llanos ) in central Venezuela, and rank highly dissected Guiana highlands in the southeast.

The isolated population of Laptev walruses is confined year-round to the central and western regions of the Laptev Sea, the eastmost regions of the Kara Sea, and the westmost regions of the East Siberian Sea.

His central claims were based on similarities of names in Norse mythology and geographic names in the Black Sea region, e. g. Azov and Æsir, Udi and Odin, Tyr and Turkey.

Weedy forms of this grain are found in central Asia, covering a widespread area from the Caspian Sea east to Xinjiang and Mongolia, and it may be that these semiarid areas may harbor " genuinely wild P. miliaceum forms.

The hand of Iuz, the Old One, extends across the central Flanaess, and the cruel Scarlet Brotherhood extends its power and influence around the southern lands bordering the Azure Sea.

It was the last major flood to affect central London, and, particularly following the disastrous North Sea flood of 1953, helped lead to the implementation of new flood-control measures that culminated in the construction of the Thames Barrier in the 1970s.

* Tetun-Belu, or the Belunese dialect, is spoken in a central strip of the island of Timor from the Ombai Strait to the Timor Sea, and is split between East Timor and West Timor, where it is considered a bahasa daerah or " regional language ", with no official status in Indonesia, although it is used by the Diocese of Atambua in Roman Catholic rites.

Subsequently, the term Scythian, like Cimmerian, was used to refer to a variety of groups from the Black Sea to southern Siberia and central Asia.